Monday, May 15, 2006

Bush Border Speech

President Bush spoke tonight on illegal immigration, the highlight being stationing 6,000 National Guardsmen on the border on a temporary basis. The Guard will not apprehend or detain illegals crossing the border, but rather be used as support in surveillance & construction.

We find this idea feeble & of little real value. 6,000 Guardsmen on a 2,000 mile border does not do much, especially when they cannot detain illegals. Rather, we believe this is the President's salve, after so many complaints now coming in about border security. It is more a PR thing than any real attempt to secure the border.

The rest of Bush's message was more of the same, especially when he spoke of a temporary worker program & illegals going to the back line for citizenship. The Senate & House compromise that is expected in the coming weeks will show where they & the President really stand with immigration reform. We are not hopeful.

2 Comments:

Blogger Tran Sient said...

I agree that most of the speech was a rehash of the same ole half answers we have been getting. However, the Guard on the Border was one of the few things I did like. The rest of it smelled like Amnesty to me though.

5/15/2006 10:14 PM  
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